Australian BMW 325is (Sport) E30

Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:22 am

Heyy guys,
When I joined this forum, my '88 325is was undergoing a complete restoration after buying it in a rough condition, and your input along the way was very helpful to me, in getting it to its present state. So here are some pics as it stands today (minus the rear "325is" badge, that is

) with only very minor details remaining to be dealt with.

Cheers guys,
Wally

Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:07 am

Looks stunning! I love the colour! Only thing i'm not convinced with is the air freshner, i have a thing about hating them

!!!!

Daf

Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:35 am

Nice BM, looks like nu

btw welcome to the Zone

Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:59 am

Daf318is wrote:Looks stunning! I love the colour! Only thing i'm not convinced with is the air freshner, i have a thing about hating them !!!!

Daf

Yeah i too prefer the original 'e30 smell' it has plus that of the newly trimmed leather seats, but mum got it for me as a present for getting my first car on the road so i couldn't say no lol

Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:04 pm

blaktoutbm wrote:Nice BM, looks like nu

btw welcome to the Zone

Cheers mate. Yeah my old man owns a European spare parts/car yard/mechanic/panel beating/painting shop so everything was done very well and exactly to my preferences. Straight ass body, awesome paint job and i got 15" BBS's to go on soon. So its gona look exactly like it did from factory if not cleaner

Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:50 pm

very nice job bud.well done

Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:55 pm

Some idiot put your steering wheel on wrong,

Other than that looks good, e30's do have a distinct smell don't they! Or is it just me?

Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:09 pm

Nice 325is dude ! I heard that sports were rare in OZ ? Was it imported from the uk ?

Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:44 am

march109 wrote:Some idiot put your steering wheel on wrong,

Other than that looks good, e30's do have a distinct smell don't they! Or is it just me?

Yep, they definitely have their own unique smell lol. Smelt it in every one i've had.

Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:48 am

e36boy wrote:Nice 325is dude ! I heard that sports were rare in OZ ? Was it imported from the uk ?

Yeah mate they are extremely rare. I came into contact with one exactly like mine yesterday by coincidence, but nowhere near as clean. Australia was delivered some 325IS's as the top-of-the-range e30 since we never got the m3. There are a few lying around but their numbers are slowly decreasing and most aren't up to scratch. That's why ive completely restored my beast to stock and take great pride in it being one of the cleanest e30's in Aus.

Wally

Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:11 pm

wallya1 wrote:
e36boy wrote:Nice 325is dude ! I heard that sports were rare in OZ ? Was it imported from the uk ?
Yeah mate they are extremely rare. I came into contact with one exactly like mine yesterday by coincidence, but nowhere near as clean. Australia was delivered some 325IS's as the top-of-the-range e30 since we never got the m3. There are a few lying around but their numbers are slowly decreasing and most aren't up to scratch. That's why ive completely restored my beast to stock and take great pride in it being one of the cleanest e30's in Aus.

Wally

It certainly is a very nice Sport mate

The guy I bought my old sport from, Was moving from Britain to OZ and wanted to take the Sport but he wasnt allowed, So he had to sell.........And he'd only had a complete leather retrim done 2 weeks before

Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:54 pm

Very nice indeed. You've done well to get it looking that clean, respect to you for keeping it standard as well. Insurance must be a hell of a lot cheaper in OZ if you can afford a 325is for your first car........Keep the pics coming.

Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:09 pm

Cheers for all the great responses guys. Plenty of effort has been put into this car and i think its finally paid off. Here are a few more pics on request.

Best Regards,
Wally

Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:17 pm

Looks lovely fella...

Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:21 pm

What a pleasant suprise to see a young bloke with a completely standard proper car. When you see one like this it makes you wonder what goes on in the minds of people who commit horrible crimes under the auspices of "modding" and "personalising"

Remember peeps, less is more !

Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:01 pm

pacerpete wrote:What a pleasant suprise to see a young bloke with a completely standard proper car. When you see one like this it makes you wonder what goes on in the minds of people who commit horrible crimes under the auspices of "modding" and "personalising"
Remember peeps, less is more !

Bruv, u iz jus jelus coz u iz one ov da haterz of uz modderz innit? Uz modders luv 2 go cruizin in our phat BM's wi' da slammed 'spensions and 17 inch 'lloys an ovva tastefull addishuns. Yeah Bruv?

Seriously, very very nice car. Great to see one as it should be.

Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:06 pm

how on earth did that lot dodge the text speak filter?

It's a Beest

Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:50 pm

Western suburbs??? Can't pick the wide streets, trees and newish houses. hmmm

Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:04 am

E30BeemerLad wrote:how on earth did that lot dodge the text speak filter?

It's a Beest

Aye Youth. You know, the best car I ever 'ad were a Mark 1 Lotus Cortina, eeh by gum I paid 500 pound for it before the war when Milk was tuppence a loaf thou knows and in them days you could carve a new crankshaft for a Morris 8 from a block o' wood and still 'ave enough left over to carve a new pair of shoes........

Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:12 am

oze30 wrote:Western suburbs??? Can't pick the wide streets, trees and newish houses. hmmm

Yeah mate haha. Outer-west of Sydney. Nice wide streets to give it a bit of a run, as it was made to do.

Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:18 am

Can i just ask opinions on who prefers the clear front indicators (first set of pics) or the orange ones (second set of pics)??

Cheers

Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:51 am

dark car-tinted!! light car-clear! orange car-scrAp it!!!

I can't wait to bring my touring back to Oz.

Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:45 am

looks lovely

Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:25 am

looks very clean!! well done mate

Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:19 am

Nice!!

Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:55 am

Lovely looking car mate, only thing missing is the centre caps. have you any pictures of the car prior to you restoration work? I too have a 325is as my first car. and am very keen to make a few restorations to mine. its not in bad condition. just not quite as i would like.

Good work fella

Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:50 am

wallya1 wrote:Can i just ask opinions on who prefers the clear front indicators (first set of pics) or the orange ones (second set of pics)??

Cheers

clear for sure! awesome car too!

Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:34 am

Cheers for the awesome responses guys. Here are a couple more pics just to give an overall image of the car

Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:38 am

Ohh and blyoss, here are a couple of pics of the car as i bought it, and before its complete restoration.. Enjoy

Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:51 am

Hey nice iS mate, good to see there still Aussie 325is' out there keeping all the commodores and falcons honest haha Where bouts in Sydney you from mate? Looks like you scored your ride from SWEA im guessing

Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:27 pm

Looks nice mate, what a difference to before, nicely done!!

Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:46 pm

Cheers boys, a lot of effort has been put into this car. And Bades, my dad owns SWEA dude loll..
Hey you were on eurocca iirc. Hows ur 325is going? Any performance mods??

Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:28 pm

Youve done very well to get it to the standard its at now !

Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:26 pm

WOW! What a transformation! Also one of the better retrims i've seen, its quite hard to replicate the original BMW leather.

Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:09 pm

wow proper nut and bolt job, did you strip the car right down? I'm guessing the aussie climate is hard on the paint and leather but kind in terms of rust and horrible rotton crusty bits.

Looks to have had some mega effort getting into this state nice one.